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Re: Subnetting troubles on linux 2.0.20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr Eberhard W Lisse)
Tue Oct 1 08:16:39 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 22:20:00 +0100
To: Janice McCarthy <janice@acpub.duke.edu>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: el@lisse.na (Dr Eberhard W Lisse)
Janice,
At 17:27 30/9/96, Janice McCarthy wrote:
>Ok. I have gotten a little bit further... I can add the route properly
>as long as I explicitly set the netmask in the route command. Fine. All
>the routing tables look good:
Why adding the routes in the first place? What's wrong with a default route?
el
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